mesmerizeとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Back-formation from mesmerism, thus mesmerism +‎ -ize; first attested in 1829.

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛzməɹaɪz/

動詞

mesmerize (三人称単数 現在形 mesmerizes, 現在分詞 mesmerizing, 過去形および過去分詞形 mesmerized)

1. To exercise mesmerism on; to affect another person, such as to heal or soothe, through the use of animal magnetism.
   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 142:

     Mesmer had about a hundred people whom he had instructed as magnetisers, some of whom belonged to the nobility, who also "mesmerised" people by making passes over the affected parts of the body.

2. To spellbind; to enthrall.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients, page 99:

     Then he commenced to talk, really talk, and inside of two flaps of a herring’s fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt’s boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.

   She mesmerized the audience with her tricks

同意語

• (exercise mesmerism on): spellbind, hypnotize, enthrall, fascinate